[Strategic] Putting the horse before the cart

Tom Hughes tom at compton.nu
Tue Jun 8 13:53:32 BST 2010


On 08/06/10 13:36, Richard Weait wrote:

> High Priority
>
>      * Additional Web Frontend Capacity
>
> Okay, that sounds good to me.  Sounds like it would affect all OSM
> visitors and users.  And I would expect that having more capacity is
> good.  What's the best way to fix it?  Again, the server / admin team
> will know.  Does this need bandwidth, processor, disk, or all three?
> Is there enough rack space at UCL for this, or should it include a
> solution at Imperial or (dare I say it again?) in North America?  I
> don't know the details.  But I know that server / admin team will have
> ideas.

Well this is a point of some debate. Grant has been saying we need this 
for some time but I keep saying that the current resources seem to be 
doing OK for now.

It certainly isn't the highest priority - the highest priority purchase 
is a tile cache server to go in the IC rack.

> So as a strawman, how about if we:
>
> 1) Additional Web Frontend Capacity
> - find out what sever / admin team wants for the additional web
> frontend capacity.
> -- without demanding forms in triplicate or a TPS report.  I nominate
> MattA and RichardF to duscuss this with others on the sever / admin
> team.

Not really necessary when pretty much the entire admin team is here 
anyway ;-)

> - find out their ideal plan for implementation schedule

When somebody has the money to buy us some new servers ;-)

Tom

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